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5 best books like Memory Mambo (Achy Obejas): Love Medicine, This Is How You Lose Her, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him, The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories, My Jim

Love Medicine
AuthorLouise Erdrich
ISBN0060786469
A member of the Chippewa and Obijwe tribes, Louise Erdrich has been a leading voice in Native American literature for over thirty years. Determined to publish her first book before she turned thirty, Erdrich wrote Love Medicine at the age of twenty nine, and this debut novel won the National Critics...
This Is How You Lose Her
AuthorJunot Díaz
ISBN1594487367
On a beach in the Dominican Republic, a doomed relationship flounders. In the heat of a hospital laundry room in New Jersey, a woman does her lover’s washing and thinks about his wife. In Boston, a man buys his love child, his only son, a first baseball bat and glove. At the heart of these stories is the...
... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him
AuthorTomás Rivera
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and the Stories
AuthorNella Larsen
ISBN0385721005
A light-skinned beauty who spends years passing for white finds herself dangerously drawn to an old friend's Harlem neighborhood. A restless young mulatto tries desperately to find a comfortable place in a world in which she sees herself as a perpetual outsider. A mother's confrontation with tragedy...
My Jim
AuthorNancy Rawles
To help her granddaughter accept the risks of loving, Sadie Watson mines her memory for the tale of the unquenchable love of her life, Jim. Sadie’s Jim was an ambitious young slave and seer who, when faced with the prospect of being sold, escaped down the Mississippi with a white boy named Huck Finn....
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